Ms. Rowland does a great job answering just about every question imaginable when it comes to dealing with your 401K plan. There is advice for getting started,switching jobs, planning beneficiaries, actually retiring, taking loans out against your 401k...everything. The book is written in a series of 2 page articles she lists as "steps" so if you want to skip around you can. While a little of the material is dated as a result of the recent tax changes, it is mostly in regards to amounts an individual is able to contribute. I felt I was fairly knowledgeable on this topic before I started reading but I found it pretty interesting and worth the time.

This book is excellent! She explains, in-depth and in easy to understand language, exactly what a 401(k) plan is and how to use it to plan for retirement. Her book clearly explains the role of the 401(k) in retirement.

This is an excellent book about 401(k) plan. I found 99% of my questions answered in that book. The book is well-organized, and the author did a good job in presenting the pros and cons of 401(k)plan. The only thing I recommend to the author is elaborating more about the 401K status for non-residnts, and how can they get their money out of this plan in case they decided to leave the country.

I gave this book to my sister, who is a doctor, and read it myself when I visited her recently. Mary Canaga Rowland immediately hooked me in the first chapter. I enjoyed her details of early medicine and living on the plains and in the west. Not only was she a pioneer in the field of medicine (as one of the first women doctors), but also she was a single mother after her husband was tragically killed only 2 days after their baby was born. Reading this book made me want to read more memoirs of women in this era.

This book was given to me by a co-worker who mentioned that Dr. Mary Rowland was his great-grandmother. It is a wonderful memoir of a dynamic woman on the frontier of career-oriented women. I was facinated by her first-person accounts of case studies, medical treatments of the day, and especially her insistance of cleanliness, at a time when most in the medical profession knew little to nothing about sterilization. This book is a must read for any one with a layperson's devotion to medical history.

This is a great starting point for people who want to know more about investing, and particulary those who want to do it themselves. Rowland packs a lot of useful investing do's and don't, with easy to follow explanations. She stresses the key concepts such as asset and risk allocation, dollar-cost-averaging, and "buy low, sell high" (which, although a cliché, is often ignored). She examines all kind of mutual funds, from stocks, to bonds, to gold, to blend. One drawback is the book is about 3 years old, which hurts the information a little. However, this book can provide investing knowledge that applies any time, whether you believe in the "New Economy" or not.

This is the only book on mutual funds that I have read. It had provided me with basics and with the places to look up mutual fund info. While not necessarily breathtaking read it is informative. The small format is also a plus (I do a lot of my reading in subway cars).

I checked out many books on mutual funds and investing from the library. This is the one I kept going back to, because its easy-to-read "dos" and "donts" format got right to the point. That might sound too pat, but the advice given within that simple format is right on and consistant with other reliable sources I've checked. There are also more sections beyond the dos & donts for those who want to go further in depth. The advice is basic and sensible - such as what factors to look for in a fund, how to evaluate performance and costs of funds, and recommended further reading. I plan to buy a copy so I don't have to keep going to the library!

This is really just a brochure for the financial planners that are profiled. What a waste.

This book is mediocre at best for professionals who know nothing about the business--there are much better ones out there. While the information in this book seems accurate, it was very shabbily put together. Don't waste your money on this one.

I just started my financial practice and found this book to be a big help... Highly recommended for the beginer